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produced ; sides nearly parallel, narrowed and sinuate in front, 

 sinuate before their middle, deeply emarginate at theii- extreme 

 base, posterior angle armed with an acute tooth ; base narrowly 

 margined ; surface subrugose- punctate, transversely impressed at 

 the base, excavated on either side near the middle ; central line of 

 disc in front and anterior margin impimctate. Scutellum smooth, 

 impimctate. Elytra broadly elongate, rather broader than the 

 base of the thorax ; sides narrowly margined, parallel ; apex sub- 

 acutely roimded, sutural angle armed with a minute tooth ; sur- 

 face moderately convex, flattened along the suture ; each elytron 

 with eleven rows of punctui'es, the first abljreviated, interstices 

 covered with finer punctures. Beneath smooth and shining. 



Hah. Northern India. 



British Museum, and collections of Major Parry, W. "W. Saunders, 

 Esq., E. Sheppard, Esq., and J. S. Baly. 



3. Botryonopa spectabilis, n. sp. B.M. 



B. elongata, subdepressa, sanguinea, nitida; elytrorum tertio postico 

 metallico-cfeiTileo ; antennis oculisque nigris ; thorace subqua- 

 drato, lateribus vix sinuato, fortiter punctato, medio longitudi- 

 naliter canaKculato, basi impresso. 



Long. 9 lin. 



B. elongate, subdepressed, sanguineous ; posterior third of elytra 

 deep shiniag metalhc blue. Head coarsely punctured ; orbits of 

 eyes rugose ; vertex transversely depressed, longitudinally grooved; 

 antenni?e entirely black ; eyes pitchy black. Thorax subquacbate ; 

 apical margin shghtly rounded ; sides subparallel, suddenly nar- 

 rowed and rounded in front, slightly so in the middle, their extreme 

 base emarginate, posterior angle armed with an acute tooth ; 

 above moderately convex, transversely impressed at the base ; 

 posterior two-thirds covered with coarse, deeply impressed punc- 

 tiu-es ; middle of the disc longitudinally grooved. Scutellum 

 smooth, impunctate. Elytra broader than the base of the thorax ; 

 sides narrowly margined, parallel ; apex rounded, emarginate at 

 the suture, suttu-al angle armed with an acute tooth ; above sub- 

 convex, slightly flattened along the suture, more especially at the 

 base, outer margin subreflexed ; each elytron deeply and regu- 

 larly impressed with eleven rows of punctiu^es, the first a])bre- 

 viated ; interstices towards their apex convex, shghtly raised ; 

 posterior third covered with a bright metallic blue patch, its an- 

 terior edge oblique. Beneath smooth and shining rufous. 



Hob. Sumatra. 



British Museum, and collection of J. S. Baly. 



This species is larger than the preceding, and has its thorax less 

 closely pimctm-ed, the sides being less deeply sinuate ; the apical 

 patch on the elytra scarcely covers the posterior third of the surface. 



